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enDialogues for justice, public interest and the common good: CPDE side event at the UN Summithttp://iboninternational.org/article/2015/10/dialogues-justice-public-interest-and-common-good-cpde-side-event-un-summit
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<div>A day after 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) together with grassroots activists, faith-based groups and NGOs organized a side event at the margins of the UN summit to discuss pressing issues affecting the marginalized and frontline communities in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. </div>
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<div>"GDP does not tell us what is happening on the ground, it is the leaders from the margins and frontlines, like you, do! You tell the stories of the high cost that is being borne by our earth and our communities," renowned environmental activist <strong>Dr. Vandana Shiva</strong> said as she delivered the forum’s keynote address via video message. </div>
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<div>The one-day activity gave space for grassroots organisations and activists to give first-hand testimonies on how they continue to struggle with injustices, inequities, exploitation, and the plunder of their natural resources.</div>
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<div><strong>Norma Maldonado</strong> from People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Guatemala, highlighted the irony of corporations that limit seed access for farmers and small-scale food producers that need it the most. “Unless the 'Global Goals' can guarantee food sovereignty, we cannot deliver on these targets,” said Norma. Food sovereignty is a concept that refers to the peoples right to healthy and culturally appropriate food as well as their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.</div>
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<div>"We want our seeds. Trade treaties ensure that companies are above people and that governments are into business and not governance. We are killing mother Earth to eat junk food. To grow food we need land but that is being grabbed by the companies”, said Norma.</div>
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<div><strong>Mazeda Akter Uddin</strong>, National Women's Coordinator at ASAAL (Alliance of South Asian American Labour) exposed the human rights violations faced by migrant women workers in New York. She lamented that many South Asian migrant women workers are being abused and discriminated, even within the USA. They are paid less and can be terminated without any reason or notice. </div>
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<div>Two civil society representatives - <strong>Eni Lestari</strong>, a migrant worker in Hong Kong and affiliated with International Migrants Alliance (IMA), and <strong>Nazma Akhter</strong>, a former garment worker from Bangladesh—who were duly selected to speak at the UN General Assembly but were later denied permission in the inter-governmental meetings-- also had their say in this Dialogue. </div>
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<div>"I am not surprised that I was not approved by the President of the General Assembly to speak. I do not have an uplifting story to tell that makes it possible to believe that poverty can be solved by 'scaling up' skills or credit or growth. Mine is not a story of rags to riches. My story is an unglamorous story of poverty, exploitation, migration and discrimination of millions of women around the world", said Eni.</div>
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<div><strong>Sara Flounders</strong>, who leads International Action Centre and is a noted writer based in the US, said, "The scourge of war and the enormous military expenses are missing from discussions around world's problems. In the period since Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were announced in 2000, US wars have been the greatest source of infrastructural destruction and cause of deaths of millions of refugees."</div>
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<div>When the US discusses sustainable development goals and environmental devastation, one thing is always left out of the discussions and that is US militarism. The Pentagon is the world's worst polluter of Green House gases and yet it has a blanket exemption in all climate agreements," added Sara.</div>
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<div><strong>Paul Quintos</strong>, from IBON International and Campaign for People's Goals, wondered why similar promises were being pledged again after 15 years. “The declaration says: Leave no one behind, but in reality people have been, and are being, pushed back,” Paul said.</div>
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<div>The whole-day event ended with a strong resolve from civil society to engage the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and hold governments accountable to their commitments.</div>
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<div><em>Original article posted: <a href="http://www.citizen-news.org/2015/10/dialogues-for-justice-public-interest.html">http://www.citizen-news.org/2015/10/dialogues-for-justice-public-interes...</a></em></div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><strong>Neoliberal Subversion of Agrarian Reform, 2nd ed.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>October 1, 2014</strong> – A new edition of the book Neoliberal Subversion of Agrarian Reform, first published eight years ago, is now available after its simultaneous double launch in Penang, Malaysia and Yogyakarta, Indonesia on September 25.</div>
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<div>The book was launched by the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) together with IBON International and IBON Institute for International Development (I3D) in cooperation with the Pesticide Action Network – Asia Pacific (PAN-AP) and GRAIN-Asia.</div>
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<div>Neoliberal Subversion of Agrarian Reform was first published in 2006 by the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) and partners – Roots for Equity, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), All Nepal Peasant’s Federation (ANPFa), Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum (TNWF), IBON Foundation, Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) and Center for Human Rights and Development (CHRD).</div>
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<div>In the new 2nd edition, PCFS together with IBON International and I3D have updated parts of the book and included articles from Kenya and Guatemala.</div>
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<div>The book launch in Penang culminated with a militant remark by Ms. Sarojeni Rengam, Executive Director of PAN-AP and member of the PCFS Asia Steering Council. She said the book was especially important to the peasantry in their continuing struggle for genuine agrarian reform.</div>
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<div>A representative from the Tamil Nadu Women’s Forum (TNWF) shared the struggles of Dalit women against land grabbing in Panchami. She expressed the importance of organizations in empowering women in their communities.</div>
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<div>Mr. Wali Haider of Pakistan-based Roots for Equity in Pakistan, who also serves as the PCFS-Asia Focal Person, shared the historical background of the agrarian reform in his country. He said there is indeed no true land reform in Pakistan. As a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist country, the lands are being monopolized by corporations in partnership with local landlords. “We are fighting for a genuine agrarian reform,” Haider said.</div>
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<div>The other launch in Yogyakarta, Indonesia was in cooperation with GRAIN-Asia during their regional workshop on Supermarket Expansion in Asia held from September 25-27. Mr. Rafael "Ka Paeng" Mariano of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP, or Peasant Movement of the Philippines) explained that KMP’s contribution to the book focused on the peasants' struggle for genuine agrarian reform in his country. He reiterated that market expansion across continents is a clear impact of neoliberal policies and corporate control in food, agriculture and rural development. </div>
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<div>Mr. Jodel Dacara of APRN enjoined everyone to read, spread and act on people's struggle for food sovereignty. Each of around 30 participants representing 22 organizations working on the rising expansion of superstores in Australasia, was given a copy of the book. ###</div>
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<div>Nearly 180 civil society organizations (CSO) worldwide appealed recently to a United Nations working group to ensure that climate change action be strongly represented among the goals and targets of the post-2015 development framework, also referred to as Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), now being discussed among UN bodies and processes.</div>
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<div>In an open letter dated June 12, 2014 and addressed to the members of the Open Working Group (OWG) on SDGs, the signatory CSOs that are mostly based in countries of the global South but also including a number of international or North-based non-government organizations (NGOs) appealed for increased efforts to ensure that the post-2015 framework “contain a coherent set of goals and targets” which: </div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div>QUEZON CITY, Philippines – <em>The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) through its Asia regional office together with 16 other local and international organizations based in the Philippines co-sponsored and organized the “People’s Solidarity Festival: Strengthening People’s Collective Actions to the Global Crisis,” last September 10 in Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.</em></div>
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<div>Around 200 participants from Philippine-based people’s organizations, civil society organizations, the academe, and international participants from the Caribbean and Asia, among others, gathered to discuss key global issues on political, economic and liberation rights and together drew resolutions for engaging in collective actions towards moving the people’s struggles forward to address such issues.</div>
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<div>An international situationer on the global crisis, along with reactions from the different sectors – labour, peasants, women, and NGOs – was discussed in the morning session. Mr. Antonio Tujan, Jr., director of IBON International and PCFS global co-chair, gave an overview of the current global economic crisis and how the crisis of imperialism fuels it to further oppress the peoples of the world. Key messages of his presentation cover the myth of the Asian century and rise of Africa and the protracted depression. The morning session also discussed specifically the ‘casino economy’ or ‘virtual economy’ – “a speculative and ephemeral growth that skims off extra profit from what should be the normal real value added in the production and distribution of commodities by taking advantage of the natural as well as artificial volatility of prices.”</div>
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<div>The afternoon session was comprised of workshops from different organizations. One workshop was titled<em> “Intensifying People’s Resistance and Responses against Global Land Grabbing,”</em> organized by PCFS together with Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), International Fisherfolk and Fish Workers Coalition (IFWC), Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) and the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) Commission 6.</div>
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<div>The workshop was in the form of an educational discussion on the phenomenon of land grabbing in the global south – Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The discussion started off with an overview of the phenomenon of global land grabbing followed by sharing of cases from Africa and Latin America presented by Ms. April Porteria, coordinator for PCFS-Asia. The Asian experience on land grabbing with special mention on the impacts of WTO on agriculture was discussed by the KMP Chairperson and former Anakpawis Party-List Representative Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano.</div>
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<div>Mariano said, “The vigorous push from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and foreign monopolycapitalists to underdeveloped nations in Asia to open up their agricultural lands to foreign agribusiness corporations has given an impetus for global landgrabbing in the region.” He also added that “The landgrabbing and neo-liberal globalization policy has summarily denied and violated the peasants’ quest for genuine land reform, agrarian justice and human rights across Asia.” He also gave emphasis on the need for collective action of the people.</div>
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<div>The last input was presented by ms. Amy Padilla of IBON International. Ms. Padilla shared the work of IBON with international engagements on agriculture and rural development issues, emphasizing that the framework used is critical engagements to expose and oppose anti-people policies and programs in the sector and forward concrete alternatives. Among the international processes mentioned are engagements with UN FAO - Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and the Office of the High Commissioner for HUman Rights (OHCHR). Another engagement mentioned is through Civil Society Mechanisms (CSM) which is FAO-recognized civil society organization (CSO) platform. She stressed that country struggles must be strengthened through mass movement building and that forging international solidarity relations should contribute to overall efforts to resist attacks of monopoly capital.</div>
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<div>Mr. Tujan, who joined the latter part of the workshop, added that attention must be also given to govenrment-facilitated large-scale and acquistions which, technically speaking may not be deemed as land grabs. He stressed that the people's right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) must at all times be upheld and fought for in the face of these government-sponsored resource grabs. </div>
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<div>The workshop also served as a build-up activity towards the campaigns against the World Trade Organization (WTO) that will culminate in the People's Global Camp on December 3-6 in Bali, Indonesia, which is a parallel people's activity to the 9th WTO Ministerial Meeting.</div>
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<div>The workshop ended with the formulation of recommendations and collective people's response against global land grabbing, along with strengthening the people's movements against the neoliberal attacks of globalization in the rural sector. The workshop gave emphasis to strengthening the campaign against WTO as one of the major culprit of resource grabbing in the world. The participants also endorsed plans to conduct an international conference on land grabbing to further expose and oppose the imperialist agenda and plunder of resources.</div>
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<div>PCFS also held a soft launching of its campaign against WTO and monopoly control of the global food system initially through its JUNK WTO! FOOD SOVEREIGNTY NOW! posters which will culminate in the People's Global Camp. ###</div>
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<div>In the bid to include human rights in the post-2015 development agenda, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), IBON International and Amnesty International in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Argentina and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations and the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), will be organizing an interactive forum on the 24th of September in Conference 7, North Lawn Building of the United Nations Headquarters, New York.</div>
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<div>The forum, entitled Visions and Voices for Human Rights: Integrating human rights into the post-2015 sustainable development agenda will take place during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and will accommodate the range of current proposals from the human rights community worldwide. Furthermore, the event aims to integrate human rights standards including the right to development as part of the post-2015 development framework.</div>
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<div>It will be an opportune moment for leaders from governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations, social movements, academia, and other major development cooperation organizations to gather and share their visions and perspectives on a transformative sustainable development agenda aligned with human rights and the right to development.</div>
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<div>To register for this event, please fill out the <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/cp-union.com/forms/d/13DoI51NJIf5Td5vVEhEQsLsmStAMKbDjRQwk8u62vbk/closedform">online form here</a>. If you experience any difficulty completing this form, contact CESR Communications Coordinator Luke Holland at <a href="http://mailto:lholland@cesr.org">lholland@cesr.org</a>. </div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div><em>Food sovereignty coalition organizes first SEA consultation on dev’t principles for agricultural investment </em></div>
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<div><em>JAKARTA, Indonesia – The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) organized the first Southeast Asia Civil Society Mechanism Consultation (CSM) on the Developments of Principles for Agricultural Investment, VG on Land and other priority CFS issues last May 23-25. The event was made possible by the efforts and initiatives of six regional organizations within the CSM Southeast Asia Working Group (CSM SEA SG). PCFS managed to induct new members and networks coming from Mongolia, Pakistan, India, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines to the consultation. </em><img alt="" class="media-image" height="185" style="width: 310px; height: 185px; margin: 10px; float: right;" width="310" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.iboninternational.org/sites/ibon/files/styles/large/public/1371534676rsz_img_9029.jpg?itok=y0czOYWO" /></div>
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<div>Members of different sectors from Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and South Asia such as farmers, rural women, NGOs, and IPs among others attended the consultation. The group was able to list down a selection of the group’s goals that are as follows:</div>
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<div>1. To create a deeper understanding of the issues confronted in the sub-region on agricultural investments among CSOs and social movements in preparation for the 2013 rounds of consultation on the rai principles.</div>
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<div>2. To identify strategies to effectively influence the implementation of the CFS sanctioned Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Land Tenure and other Natural Resources.</div>
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<div>3. To discuss other issues identified as priority agenda by CFS for 2013 to include Climate Change and Biofuels, among others.</div>
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<div>4. To strengthen the SEA Sub-regional CSM through clearer understanding of the CSM, its value added to on-going sub-regional CSO efforts on common agenda on food security and nutrition, and by strengthening the SEA CSM coordination structure and processes.</div>
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<div>Deliberations made within the consultation process allowed the group to come up with a list of recommendations and action points concerning the drafting of the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Agricultural Investments and the Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure. The regional caucus also pointed out ways to forward on the engagements of the sub-region to CSM in relation to CFS. In addition, the group recommended retaining the inclusive process among CSOs/social movements/grassroots organizations in the sub-region to build sub-regional solidarity and co-operation. The group also discussed its plans for a more active participation and involvement in CSM governance, Working Groups, and also in the official process of the CSM-CFS. The group also resolved to optimize opportunities for converging with other relevant global and regional CSO processes (e.g. Development Effectiveness, CSO parallels-FAO APRC, etc.).</div>
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<div>CSM SEA group’s upcoming activities will be convened by the PCFS co-chair Antonio Tujan, jr. as the CSM focal person for Southeast Asia starting June 2013 until May 2014.</div>
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<div>On January 22, 2013, IBON International, WALHI, INDIES, PCFS and APRN are inviting peoples’ organizations, social movements and non-government organisations from across Indonesia to a workshop titled “Towards a Just and Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda”</div>
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<div>The workshop’s objectives are:</div>
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<div>1. To discuss the challenge of sustainable development in the global and Indonesian context;</div>
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<div>2. To provide a background on the United Nations’ roadmap towards a post-2015 development framework;</div>
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<div>3. To present the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development (CPGSD); and</div>
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<div>4. To strategize how Indonesian social movements and civil society can campaign for a truly just, equitable and transformative development agenda for the post-2015 period.</div>
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<div>The Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development is a global campaign of grassroots organisations, labor unions, social movements and non-governmental organisations and other institutions committed to promoting new pathways to the future we want. To join the campaign, <a href="http://iboninternational.org/cpgsd">click on the CPGSD sign-on page here</a>.</div>
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<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">By:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/authors/mark-dearn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mark Dearn</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Reportage from UNFCCC COP18 in Doha</em></p>
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<div><strong>US chides NGOs, outlines its positions not based on need</strong></div>
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<div>DOHA, November 30, 2012 — The US chief negotiator at COP-18 issued a strong rebuke to NGOs in an off-the-record meeting, which has now been published in Indian media.</div>
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<div>Jonathan Pershing told NGOs they should recognize that the US makes it possible for them to be present at COP-18. And while many parties and NGOs at COP-18 are calling for agreements based on science, Pershing said that US positions are not based on the reality of “what is needed”. He went on to rubbish the concept of sharing atmospheric space, underlining that US positions are based on what can be sold to the US Congress.</div>
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<div>"We are one of the funders to make it possible for you to be at the table,” Pershing told NGOs present in the meeting. “I hope you recognize that many of you who come to the meetings you do, the US fights for you at every chance to give you a chance to be in this room."</div>
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<div>In what could be considered an arrogant aside, Pershing noted that not all Parties agree with the US: "What we also think is the participation of a lot of countries out there includes the ones that disagree with us."</div>
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<div>Pershing, who made news in the run-up to COP-18 with the claim that the US should be recognized for its “enormous” efforts on climate change, proceeded to dismantle a concept drawn from the UNFCCC foundational principle of equity – the sharing of atmospheric space.</div>
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<div>"It's a vision [in which] you can say that the atmosphere can take an X quantity of coal emissions and therefore what you do is you divide that number into percentages,” he said.</div>
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<div>“The obligation it states is that you [the US] would have to reduce emissions down to negative 37% [below 1990 levels]. And the obligation of China will be a tiny bit, but India can still grow quite a lot. The politics of that quite frankly really don't work. I can't really sell that to the US Congress." </div>
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<div>Pershing underscored that for the US the defining principle of agreements it reaches must be whether they can be “sold at home”.</div>
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<div>He said: "One way to think about it is what you could deliver. You say what you are going to do and you will be held to that. So how do you marry the reality of what you are doing with the reality of what is needed. To me, it's going to be a hybrid. It's going to be something between those two." </div>
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<div>He added: "Because if we can't take it home and sell it at home, in whatever political economy we are living in, we won't do it." </div>
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<div>Pershing’s comments will further the perception of US intransigence to developing country positions in negotiations based on compromise. Developing country groupings including the G77/Africa, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), and BASIC (Brazil, India, South Africa and China) have all stressed that a legally binding second commitment period (CP2) of the Kyoto Protocol—which would ensure that industrialized countries and economies in transition commit to further carbon emission reductions—is a cornerstone for ambition in COP-18 and combatting climate change. However, the US, along with Japan, Russia, Canada and New Zealand have pulled out of CP2 in favor of a “pledge and review” system.</div>
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<div>Pershing criticized the role of the UN after COP-15 in Copenhagen. After complaining that “it seemed like we didn’t sleep for two weeks,” he credited the role of leading economies led by the US for progress in the talks.</div>
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<div>"I am not sure that any of us are particularly confident that the UN managing the near-term financing is the right way to go," he said.</div>
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<div>The Guardian newspaper reported that Pershing suggested the forum offered by the UN was important for countries such as Cuba or the small islands to air their grievances.</div>
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<div>Pershing was sworn in as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change on March 19, 2009. He is a former director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a US-based think tank, and he also directed the Environment Program at the International Energy Agency, in Paris. ### </div>
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<div><em>IBON International will co-host a COP 18 side event “Promoting the Busan Building Block on Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness” on December 1, 2012, from 18.30 – 20.00, in Side Event Room 7, Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha, Qatar.</em></div>
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